Initially coming to fame with her striking blonde hair and cool expressions in
the silent movie era, Marlene Dietrich effectively adapted her image with the
dawning of "talkies", while her cool, deep voice helped her gain much popularity
as a singer too. From a privileged Berlin family which owned a clockmaking firm,
she studied violin and by 1922 was playing in the orchestra pit for silent
movies. She then became a chorus girl in various vaudeville shows, making her
movie debut with a small role in the movie So Sind die Männer. Dietrich
continued to appear on stage and screen th...